Meet theree of the Oscar nominees for Best Foreign Language Film

On the 8rd of February, Urania shows three of the Oscar-nominees for Best Foreign Language Film in a row.

The films are screened in the original languages:
Mustang in Turkish, with Hungarian subtitles
Embrace of the Serpent in Spanish, Portuguese, German and Catalan with Hungarian subtitles
Son of Saul in Hungarian(without subtitles!)

14:00 Mustang
drama, France, Germany, Turkey, Qatar, 97 minutes, 2015
Directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven

In a remote seaside village in Turkey, school has just let out for the summer. Five long-haired sisters frolic through the waves, still in their school uniforms. They climb atop the shoulders of schoolboys, laughing and splashing in the water, embracing their newfound freedom with abandon. Little do they know that this will be their last taste of such joys. The sisters return home to find that a neighbor has reported their "scandalous behavior." News travels and the girls' innocent antics bring shame upon their entire family. Stunned, the girls maintain they were only playing a children's game, but their protests fall upon deaf ears. Their burgeoning sexuality is now a threat.

The movie was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Europa Cinemas Label Award. It won the 2015 Lux Prize too and was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards.

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16:00 Embrace of the Serpent
El abrazo de la serpiente
aventure, drama, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, 125 minutes, 2015
Directed by: Ciro Guerra

At once blistering and poetic, the ravages of colonialism cast a dark shadow over the South American landscape in EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT, the third feature by Ciro Guerra. Filmed in stunning black-and-white, SERPENT centers on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him. The film was inspired by the real-life journals of two explorers (Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes) who traveled through the Colombian Amazon during the last century in search of the sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic Yakruna plant.

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18:30 Son of Saul
drama, Hungary, 107 minutes, 2015
Directed by: Nemes László

Son of Saul (Hungarian: Saul fia) is a 2015 Hungarian drama set in the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II, and follows a day and a half in the life of Saul Ausländer (played by Géza Röhrig), a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando.

In October 1944, Saul Ausländer (Géza Röhrig), a Hungarian-Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz works as a Sonderkommando member, burning the dead. One day, he finds the body of a boy he takes for his son. He tries to salvage the body from the flames, and find a rabbi to arrange a clandestine burial. Meanwhile other members of the Sonderkommando learn about their impending extermination, rise up and destroy the crematorium. Saul keeps focused on his own plan to pay the last honours to a son he never could take care of before.

The film premiered at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prix. The film was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards.. It is the ninth Hungarian film to be nominated for the award, and the first one since István Szabó's Hanussen in 1988. It won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film. It is the first Hungarian film to win the award.

We screen  beautiful 35mm print.

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